Here you will find all things about my personal life. From parenthood wins and fails, to why I chose to change to a plant-based diet. My fitness routines and love affair with essential oils are all detailed in the blogs below. If there is anything else you would like to know about, please don't hesitate to email me. For daily updates on my personal life follow me on instragram @emillysonsie

So in case you missed it July was #plasticfreejuly. This started in 2011 and has been gaining momentum each year. I never really thought twice about my waste until recently. I suppose I was ignorant to the effect I was having on the environment. I never really thought that by reducing my waste it would make a difference but having Hunter has changed my perspective on everything. I want him to have the best life possible and that means having a beautiful earth to live on.

I am finally at a point in my life where I happy with who I am. I am confident in my skin, in my opinions and I am just living for me. I exercise and eat well to feel great, not because my life is dictated by a number on a scale or by what I think society demands from me. It’s taken till 26, till really becoming a Mum in actual fact for me to finally understand what really matters and it isnt the size of my clothes but how I feel in them.

A month ago I decided something needed to change. I had become a snacking machine and my body wasn’t liking it at all. I was continuously grazing throughout the day. I was still eating all the right foods, healthy and nutritious foods but my body was reacting poorly. I was also eating right from the moment I woke up, 5:30am and basically until I went to sleep 9pm. For a good few weeks I was never hungry because I was constantly snacking. I wouldn’t be hungry for actual lunch or dinner because I never really stopped eating from breakfast

So it’s official. I’m half way through my Vegan Bowls for Vegan Souls Cookbook. 50 out of 100 recipes made. I said I wanted to cook all 100 recipes from the beginning but even I was expecting to come a across a few recipe fails. I promise you when I say that I am yet to be disappointed, and I haven’t had a recipe fail me!

Vegan Bowls for Vegan Souls. I knew I wanted a copy of this cook book as soon as I saw the title. I was lucky enough to get the book with my coconut bowl for Christmas, and could not have been more excited. I am quite confident in the kitchen and normally don’t follow a recipe, but as soon as I opened this cook book I knew I wanted to recreate every page.

I’d love to say that I went vegan because of the animals and the environment. That they were my primary reasons for this shift in lifestyle. Unfortunately it’s not. They have still contributed to this shift but my primary reason is selfish. My own health. Two factors contributed to the change: IBS and the need to rid my body of added hormones.